Who /book-a-week 2016/ here?
This is retarded. The Recognitions took me three weeks.
>>7599312
Not quite but close.
Only plebs take such a contest seriously.
>>7599339
If it's a contest it's only one with your former self.
Let the circle jerk begin !
>>7599352
You're God damn right ! I'm gonna kick my own ass !
>>7599312
I'm at 10 by now. My holiday stretched into January by quite a bit, and I read a couple of Shakespeare's plays, which is kind of cheating. Still, get gud bro.
I'm not doing that shit. I read both 1000-page russian novels and 100-page comics. It's impossible and purposeless to force such an inorganic "balance" on your reading pace.
>>7599444
>comics
>>7599444
It does nothing to your pace. You have all year.
>>7599446
>>comics
>>7599458
It amazes me how people take their time to make those images.
180 last year, 200 this year, 10 so far.
Next up: Richard Weiner - The Game for Real.
>>7599312
how the fuck i read faster?!
>>7599517
People are gonna tell you to stop subvocalizing, but this is bait, at least if you have writerly ambitions. It's impossible to appreciate good writing, or the sonical aspect of decent writing, without subvocalizing. Just practice and you'll gain momentum.
I've only read three so far this year. I'm not sure if that's good for a book a week though so far in the year.
>>7599524
Thanks.
>>7599545
Impossible.
>>7599546
Possible. I read many ~100pages books
>>7599556
I read 70-130 pages an hour >10hours a day, but I take a break now for the Australian Open.
>>7599556
Literally the worst kind of person on Goodreads.
>>7599559
Blame Arno Schmidt and Anna Kavan for writing short books.
>>7599444
It averages out to be accurate enough to be a neat game
Your example did. Take the avg of the books you read in 2015 and see how it's pretty close
>>7599312
idk I might, however I doubt ill manage considering I want to read some doorstopper shit this year
>>7599595
All but.
>>7599312
>>7599312
Do you no longer get enough reward from the books themselves? Fucking Americans. Why not a little poof of cocaine released at the turning of each page? Would that be stimulating and rewarding enough to keep reading? How about male and female versions of books, one resembling a town crier's scroll and the other made from pages velvet and moist? So when you turn away from your unsatisfying book, and relax into the pillow, you can slide the pages around your flacid dick, or touch the tip of the scroll on your clitoris, and find some satisaction today at least.
>>7599659
I have a wankevery 5 pages
>>7599662
What're you reading?
>>7599517
I practice Mongolian throat singing under my breath while reading, it works!
>>7599683
The Peloponnesian War
>>7599545
Hello Sebastian
>>7599312
Casual. Doing 100 books in the year
>>7599771
That's what, like 15 YA boxsets?
>>7599312
I'm actually doing 60 this year. Got 3 down already:
>Homage to Catalonia
>Dolores Claiborne
>The Mountain Shadow
I'm ok with this. I'm planning to read all books of +700 pages. 2 per month will do.
Reporting in. General in his Labyrinth almost done.
Already starting to feel like I'm lagging behind, but apparently I'm on track
>>7599517
Grind through difficult to read books and you'll fly through easy-normal ones.
>>7599911
what'd you think of voices from chernobyl?
6 books in 1/3 with another 3
>>7599975
Loved it. I've always been fascinated with the Chernobyl incident and how it is interpreted and represented.
This book isn't for the faint of heart, it's heavy, there's a lot of sadness and tragedy, and some truly horrific accounts of the way people suffered and slowly died, in some cases their faces and flesh literally melt off. It's hellish.
The primary objects of the narrative asides, there's a lot interesting motifs and themes to be gleaned from it. There's a lot of examination, both positive and otherwise, of how the soviet state handled the catastrophe, which is a lot to get into in a post so i won't elucidate further on that. There's also mediation on the "Russian soul" and the ideology of sacrifice for the betterment of history or the country, and you read some really amazing stories of conviction and determination.
My favourite element perhaps is the eschatological angle of it all. As you read through the monologues, the way many people describe it in a way that seems Biblically Apocalyptic, and even later on some interviewees explicitly relate the event in terms of the "end times".
Anyways it's difficult to narrow down all the fascinating parts about his book because there's a lot to it. Suffice to say I highly suggest it if any of what I said sounded interesting.
>>7600093
sorry what is author's name, can't make out
>>7600129
Svetlana Alexievich
Another anon recommending it here
>>7600145
thank you
>>7600093
>tfw Tajik squatters are living in Chernobyl because of the free rents
I also enjoyed it immensely, I'm reading her book on afghan war veterans soon.
>>7599545
why do you give so many low ratings sebastian?
Graphin' that shit, senpai
>>7600275
Interesting idea, if people would set their "date started reading" and their "date ended reading" in their goodreads data (which never happens) you could make such a GANTT chart automatically based on the exported goodreads data.
>>7600275
Filthy formalism.
>>7600281
I can't wait until the end of the year, so I can run the data through a range of correlation tests. I might end up adding some more categories; eg: country of origin, 'genre', authors age when written, ect ect. I reckon there's something to learn from the data it will collect.
>>7600293
Are you using goodreads? Most of that is already in the data, here's the header:
>Book Id,Title,Author,Author l-f,Additional Authors,ISBN,ISBN13,My Rating,Average Rating,Publisher,Binding,Number of Pages,Year Published,Original Publication Year,Date Read,Date Added,Bookshelves,Bookshelves with positions,Exclusive Shelf,My Review,Spoiler,Private Notes,Read Count,Recommended For,Recommended By,Owned Copies,Original Purchase Date,Original Purchase Location,Condition,Condition Description,BCID
You can export it under My Books -> import/export (bottom left)
I've played a bit with correlations with ratings and didn't find good r2 values for linear regression, the problem is that there are only 5 possible values for ratings out of which you choose "3" or "4" most of the time
>>7599659
Nice
>>7599312
A shame that you cannot set a target in pages, not books. That'd go some way to making it more fair.
>>7600281
>(which never happens)
All it requires is entering the book to 'now reading' and then rating it when you've finished
>>7600288
An unstructured mind is a useless mind
>>7600573
All structure must have a purpose, I don't see any in yours. What do you want to learn about those books?
>>7600600
That wasn't me who replied, but what do you even mean?
I don't see what keeping track of your yearly reads could possibly do to inhibit any meaning gained through said reads..
I'm literally doing this to motivate myself; and try and see if there is any sort of correlation between what I like.
>>7599997
cheeky croat strikes again
>>7600281
I do that when I "review" my books, don't project your laziness onto others.
>>7599312
Not sure if im gonna make it this year, i want to get a job.
>>7600725
Same books, but limit 50.
Same problem.
I want to get a job. I already have my *useless* college degree. I don't know if I should go back to college to do a master or do some other shit.
I'm trying to for 25 this year. Which will be more than I've read in the past two years combined.
